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TIL 9/11 Memorial Staff Place White Roses Daily to Honor Victims on Their Birthdays

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pLKG TIL A High School Student in Georgia Was Suspended for 1 Year After Hugging His Teacher
9YMjQ TIL that the actors that played Ethel and Fred hated one another so much, that Vivian Vance (Ethel) once stated: “I loathed William Frawley (Fred) and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wasn’t a scene where we had to be in bed together.”
4X17J TIL the United States trained, equipped, and fought alongside the Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh during WWII.
jNWXn TIL Legend says Alexander the Great used an ancient submarine "bathysphere" to survey the underwater sea. What he saw horrified him: "the world is damned and lost".
0EMy TIL to test the authenticity of wine, you can measure its radioactivity. If it was bottled before 1945, there shouldn’t be any cesium 137 - radioactive evidence of exploded nuclear bombs - in the wine.